Masters 2010:
18 Jul East Region Open Water Championships
18 Sep NEC Masters - Middlesborough - Entry Form
29-31 Oct ASA SC Nationals
?? Dec South Yorkshires
Running:
Tri:
The Faulty Flipper is the informal home of the BOK Masters Squad. Masters swimming is for adult swimmers who do not mind getting their hair wet, want to get very fit, and to swim hard hoping to improve technique, get a bit faster, and have a laugh between gasps for air.

Weather

Weather observation for Huddersfield at 21:00 BST.

Temperature: 16°C
Wind Direction: E
Wind Speed: 23mph
Relative Humidity: 66%
Pressure: 1004mb falling
Visibility: Good

Weather information derived from data from bbc.co.uk.

New Intake

At last night’s training our new ‘intake’ of members from one of the other squads, now closed, joined in. The simple thing is that if you add ten swimmers to an already full pool the result will not be comfortable – for anyone or at all. It wasn’t.

First, and above all, welcome to the new swimmers. [...]

NE Counties – Entry Form

WO, returned in glory from Sweden, has just sent me the link to the entry form for the NE Counties gala (Saturday 18 September):

http://www.swimnortheast.org.uk/results/2010/asanermasters2010/masters2010.pdf

Entry Closing date Saturday 4 September 2010.
The event starts early for a 400m free event, but laggards will get a second chance to warm up a [...]

Wendy – Good Luck

Wendy, our only current World Champion swimmer, is off to Sweden over the next few days to take on the world again at the World Masters. First, and above all – Good luck. As someone once said “Stick One On ‘em”, and as Jamie once nearly said “Be proud of your . . .”
We can all [...]

Swim Workout 28 July 2010

Warm Up: 200 Free + 100 Back + 200 free/Pull + 100 IM + 200 Choice
Main Set:
3 x 200IMK – 1st drill, 2nd Kick/pull, 3rd full
16×50 IM order
2 x [3 x 100 free (50Hard+50 easy, 25 easy+50 hard+25 easy, 50 easy+50 Hard)
No time for swim down
Thanks to Suzanne for setting this and previous sessions. It is [...]

Phelps’ Free-Style

A good video is at

Michale Phelps.

I can’t embed the video, but is very well [...]

FS drill

This [...]

Coaching

Not quite sure, but Nick seems to have finished coaching and will no doubt return shortly as a swimmer. He deserves all the hell you can give him . .
What do we do now? There is no immediate prospect of a coach taking over. Though things might turn out well, we can and should only look [...]

August Swimming – Above Us Only Sky

You will have heard that we (BOK Masters Squad) were to close down for the last two weeks in August. Not Now. Thanks (a big thanks) to Gemma, the squad will, as usual, swim through.
There are a lot of rumours churning about in the changing rooms and showers. Not all of them have been started by [...]

Masters Swimming – Toward a New Definition

You know how there are things which you can do which are good for you. In general, you do it, get it or eat it, and lo an behold your life is improved beyond recognition.
So much so that the benefits of whatever it is are clearly demonstrated by pictures taken before and pictures taken after whatever [...]

BOK Masters Swimming – Swim Set July 11 2010

BOK Masters – Sunday. Finishing 25 minutes before the start of the World Cup Final.
Warm up: 10 mins Assorted (750m).
Main Set: Free – 200, 175, 150 . . 25
Free/flippers 25, 50, 75 . . 200 – easier but longer underwater out of turn.
3 x 100 IM
Swim Down 200m
Off to watch [...]

Work out 10 July 2010

BOK Masters – swim set – Saturday 10 July. 1 hour in a 25m pool – lane 4 of 6. Coach: Nick Overton.
Warm up 5 x 150m varied
First Set: – 5 x 200 (150 Free + 50 Back) 20s RI
Second Set: 6 x100m (25Fly+75Free) off 2:00
Third: 6x75m -free with 25m breast ‘moving through’.
Enough.
Solipsism: The philosophical theory [...]

8 July 2010 – A Solipsist’s Workout

Warm up
4 x 150 (100+50choice/kick)
200 IM
200m ¬Free, 50m Free
150m ¬Free, 100m Free
100m ¬Free, 150m Free
50m ¬Free, 200m Free
Free – 5 x [4 x 25m] in fours of 35s, 30s, 25s, 30s, 25s
¬Free – – 5 x [4 x 25m] in fours of 35s, 30s, 25s, 30s, 25s
(didn’t finish)
Solipsism – a philosophically pure [...]

Set 4 Jul 10 – Consomme

Warm Up: 4 x [100 free + 50 ch] + 4 x [50 fr + 25 kick]
Main Set:
- 5 x 100 Free off standard+10sec
- 10 x 50 off 1m 10s
- 5 x 100 IM off 2m 15s
150m swim down.
Somebody had lost whatever key it is which keeps the water temperature down, and the water was unhappily [...]

Work out – Saturday 3 July 2010

Warm up: 5 x [100 Free + 50 Choice]
Main Set:
9 x 100 off standard time (1m 50)
30s rest
6 x 100 off Standard time – concentrate on exits from turns
20x 25 (5 off each in IM order) 30-40 secs

Swim down; 150m

Just what the doctor ordered. John Da and I took the 100s in turn which left us [...]

Just because I am so bad at this . [...]

Workout 27 June 2010

Warm up: 3 x 150m (100free + 50 back); 3 x 100 (75pull+25m kick)
Main: (fins on)
14x25m free/Back
2 x 5×100 – 5 on free, 5 on back – concentrating on trying to do good stretch underwater from turn.
Flippers off
5 x 10 free – same on kicks
100m [...]

Upper Bay v R – Health and Safety at Swimming Pool

Upper Bay Ltd, Regina -v- – CACD – 02-Mar-10 – Lord Judge CJ, Roderick Evans, Griffith Williams JJ (Bailii, [2010] EWCA Crim 495, [2010] WLR (D) 60, WLRD) – Crime – Negligence – Health and Safety
The defendant sought leave to appeal against its conviction for failing so to conduct its swimming pool as to avoid [...]

Swimming Workout – 26 June 2010

Warm Up: 200m free + 200m Choice + 2x100m IM + 200 pull
Main Set: 4 x [4 x {125} ] 1st and last length of each 125 IM strokes. 20 seconds rest – additional 20 secs each 4 swims.
Swim Down: 200m easy
BK Masters Swimming quad – 25m pool, 1 hour session set by Mick Overton. Lane [...]

Nick is Falling In

Nick has now confirmed that he has been returned to active duty as a fire fighter. The immediate consequence is that he will be working shifts, and that therefore he cannot commit to coaching us. Sometime between now and early August he will disappear as coach – and re-appear as a swimmer. Good for him.
Far too [...]

Masters Workout – 23 June 2010

Warm up: 2 x [100 free + 100 pull] + 2 x [100 ch + 50 kick]
Main Set: 2 x [200 hard, 3 x 200 - 100 fast moving through, 200 Fast] 1st Free, 2nd IM
Swim down: – not [...]

Workout 20 June 2010

Sunday evening – a long summer’s day crowned by an hour of . .

Warm up: 2 x [ 100 free + 100 ch + 100 (50p/50k)] + 2 x 100m IM

Main Set 2 x [ 8 x 25m, 3 x 100m, 4 x 50m, 8 x 25m ] Free then choice

Swim down: ? x 75m [...]

Workout – 19 Jun 10

Warm up: 300 free + 200 ¬free + 100 pull/kick
Main set 2 x ( 2 x 200 + 4 x 100 + 4 x 50) First set free, second set ¬ free. Alternating swims easy/hard.
Lane 4 of 6. One hour session in 25m pool for BOK Masters. Coach [...]

End of free swimming?

. . just before I got their . . nearly.
We have had provided free swimming now for about two years to those under 16 and over 60. It was one of those few things I had to look forward to in my decline. The Coalition Government has announced the demise of this scheme. This, [...]

Dolphin Takes Role as Music Critic

Some amongst us are (quite understandably) reluctant to take on the ordure of swimming the channel. You might have thought that ‘swimming with dolphins’ – often portrayed as a sweet and even spiritual experience – was relatively safe.
Well, it was. It was until a particular dolphin took an opportunity denied to many a music critic. [...]

Masters Swimming – Swim Set – 13 June 2010

Session Sunday 13 June 2010
Warm up: 2 x [100 free + 100 ¬free + 100 pull/kick]
Main Set: 4 (Free/Choice/Free/IM) x [5 x 100m]
A simple killer.
This is for lane 4 out of 5 for OK Masters Simming squad. 25m pool/1 hour. Set by [...]

North East Counties – 26 September 2010

The NEC championships are set for Saturday 26 September. They are to be held at Middlesborough. An entry form is available here. The actual event is at the Neptune Centre Swimming Pool, Ormesby Road Middlesbrough TS3 7RP – tel: 01642 230 106. It is 85 miles from Brighouse (well you can do your own calculation) and [...]

Swim Session – 12 June 2010

Warm up: 300 Free + 200 ¬free +100 Ch + 200 pull
Main: 2 x [2x200Fr + 200¬Free + 2 x (100 50fr/50ba) ] (all [...]

An easy one

I get complaints that sometimes not all my posts are understood. Hmm. .

an easy one. An EVF [...]

5 June 2010 – swimming session

warm up: 7 x 100 mixed

2 x 800 – concentrate on good turns

8 x 25 on 35s IM order.

7 x 50 (fly, fly/back, back, back/breast, breast, breast/free, free)

Swim down: 50m
I really enjoyed this. John led the 800s, and created havoc by going off all-ambly, but speeding up at about 600m.

WeOf was the true star. When surrounded [...]

Workout – 2 Jun 2010

BOK masters swimmers – session Wednesday
Warm Up: 5 x 150
[100 free + full, pull, kick, choice, no free]
5 x 200 (150 full + 50 pull)
5 x 200 (150 full + 50 no free)
All 20s Rest interval

Swim down – 200m
25 meter pool, lane 4 [...]